Mr Robert Heard served in the Royal Artillery from 1961 to 1975. He was exposed to a lot of noise during this time. Mr Heard has a high frequency sensori neural symmetrical loss which runs from mild in the low frequencies to severe/profound in the high frequencies. Mr Heard struggled

“My new Hearing Aids have made a big difference to my life and are a big improvement on my NHS equipment. I flew for 34 years in the RAF, mainly on Turbo Prop aircraft, in 1979 I suffered a burst Eardrum during a practice emergency descent. On leaving the RAF

Mr Osborne served in the RAF 300 squadron, he was a grand operator, plenty of live firing at all times. He spent 8 hours a day sending out codes to the other troops. Mr Osborne also flew aircraft’s and no hearing protection was worn during this time. Mr Osborne struggled

“Mr Eddie Cooper of Barwell”. Mr Cooper, from Leicestershire, joined the Army as a boy entrant in 1958. During his boy’s service he was subjected to small arms’ firing, sub machine gun, light machine gun and .303 rifles.  The field guns fired were 25 pounders.   He wasn’t given any ear

Mr Dennis Waite – was in the Army for 45 years!! Starting at 15 years of age. He was in the REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) His hearing was definitely damaged by his years in the forces with a bomb blast in Brunei, was in Ireland and had a

Mr Thomas Stalker – Royal Core of Transport – 6 years – went to Northern Ireland with the Army  driving the vehicles was there in the summer of 1976 which was one of the hottest summers.  Had the window open a lot with all the engine noises – tremendously loud.